I’m not trying to be flippant. This is a tragedy. I just think that Matt Drudge — as of 5:10 this afternoon, had it right on his page:

It’s not what kind of gun, or weapon — but the liberal media and congress critters will make it so. Timothy McVeigh used fertilizer. It could have been a psycho with a knife.

It’s the sick-fuck who committed the crime and it might — I say “might,” not certainly, — might have been stopped short if a few teachers or administrators had been allowed to CCW in that school. In fact, if the knowledge that some school personnel are armed was out there, this fucking mutant (I won’t print his name) might have thought twice.

But, alas, with the drumbeats of the aforementioned media and the usual suspects in Congress sounding loud, I fear that this might be the final straw. Obama isn’t facing another election.

I saw that too on Drudge! That recent attack in China is not the only one that’s happen, it’s an ongoing problem over there.

The Legacy Media always tried to make “guns” the connection to most of these crimes but most actually have mental illness in common. This case smells like the Virginia Tech shooter, who was also autistic.

Rhetorically, I wonder why mass shootings are almost exclusively in “gun free” zones?

How many mass killings have taken place in say…a gun show, a shooting club, a….police station. Oh yea, there was a mass shooting in a police station in L.A. when the Terminator was searching for….oops that was a Hollywood movie….my bad.

I’ve never, ever, ever heard a story of a mass killing in the presence of a concealed carry permit/license holder.

In college, I was a student and member of a university police department. As an officer, I was allowed and did carry at all times. My classmates didn’t know it. The 20 or so members of my class who also were officer/students carried like I did and didn’t advertise it. But, had the situation arose, there would have been a response to the violence, a very violent and lethal counter response. I dare so, no mass killing and a killer killed nonetheless.

Regardless of what the liberal Borg say, I would like to think that we already have a ‘national policy’ on guns; it’s called the Second Amendment. Whenever a tragedy like this occurs, we already know what to expect and from whom. The Left will never be able to do the math. After watching the news today, the only viewpoint I saw was “Why don’t we do something about the guns? Where did he get that arsenal?” I won’t live long enough to see the lapdogs show one of these interviewees say, “Wish someone with a gun was around to stop this.” Arsenal? Assault weapon? Math is hard.

This shooting made me think about some material I ran into several years ago on how SSRI’s effect some people when they first begin taking them. An employee had started on them with very negative results.

It appears that a small percentage of people lose all control, and a number of mass shootings have been linked with beginning on these medications. I wonder if the recent shooters had started taking them.

One story I read several years ago was about an elderly man with no criminal record who held up the savings bank where he had an account with a five figure balance soon after starting on SSRI’s.

Numerous stories of whole families being wiped out are related to these drugs.

I think this is a huge problem that needs to be exposed. I think the big drug corporations are trying to keep lid on these stories and succeeding.

Here is a website with a lot of links. http://ssristories.com/ Here is another: http://alignlife.com/articles/depression/ssri-drugs-suicide-and-deception/ Here is a snip from it: A beloved sister on antidepressants tries to kill herself. A young teenager hangs herself four days after taking 100 milligrams of Zoloft. A young woman on antidepressants slashes her wrists, and another viciously mutilates herself. A father holds a photo of his 12 year old daughter because it is all that is left of her after her suicide eight weeks after being put on Paxil and Zoloft. Parents of a high school girl who had scored 1300 on her SATs before being prescribed an antidepressant drug had to pick out a cemetery plot instead of a university, following her suicide. Another father recalls his son telling him he could not stand the way the drugs were making him feel, and two days later he killed himself. A mother and father relive watching their child deliberately run into the path of a moving car.

A Google search on: SSRI suicide rage will bring up pages of this stuff. Uncontrollable rage is a result in a small number of people, and has led to them killing everyone in the house.

I am watching the predictable anti-gun hysteria, and wondering if any organization with a national following will ask if SSRI’s are involved.

Before we make guns illegal, let’s make killing people illegal. Oh, wait, we already did and still people get killed? So obviously making something illegal doesn’t stop it. See for example drugs, prostitution.

The need to blame an inanimate object for the pain inflicted is a way to avoid looking at where the real blame lies. I am presently representing someone who is accused of murder only he used a knife. Logically, we should confiscate all the knives too.

But as stated above, the problem is mental illness. When we closed all of the mental institutions, we just expanded the prisons. We need something other than prisons but better than mental institutions to stop these sort of tragedies.

From Colorado: Retired FBI agent who followed up here after Columbine says it’s - no surprise - mental illness.
Charles Krautheimer [sp?], on Fox, is a psychiatrist and says the same thing.
Early reports are shooter shot his mother, with her legally purchased firearm, in the face. A very strong indicator that there’s a “problem”, then followed that up by killing what’s been said were her students. Anyone see a pattern? And since the staff at the school knew him, they apparently buzzed him in.
Just in time to follow-up Colorado Gov Hick changing his mind about guns. He said earlier this year that the Aurora shooter would have found something other than guns to kill with. [As with the Columbine killers, he had set out bombs - his were in his apartment; they had put them throughout the school and in several cars. This gets little coverage.]
Yes, there is evil out there. Give all ofthose you love a hug or a call. Hey, even call the ones you don’t love!

However, I think it would do at least something to dissuade the next potential mass murderer to know, for example, that coverage on him will not focus on the Evil Menace part of him (which is a self-conception he finds flattering), but the Sad, Lonely Pathetic Guy Who Has a Small Dick and Couldn’t Keep a Woman or a Job and Just Couldn’t Hack It part of him. The part that’s actually much more relevant to his crime — masterful men do not have to kill people to let the world know “I exist” — and the party that he’s actually afraid of other people knowing about.

I urge everyone who has an interest in the subject of crazies committing mass murder to read Clayton Cramer’s “My Brother Ron”. Very sad, and very enlightening. The pain and struggles that the family of these paranoid schizos endure is horrible, albeit not as bad as the families of their victims.

Another factor in the equation is the complete inability of family to have any control over the mentally ill individual once they are 21. I know two families who have to struggle with this issue with their paranoid schizophrenic children in their 20s. Neither of the two will take their meds or even bathe regularly and one spends most of his time on the street where he is constantly being picked up by the police for disruptive behavior. The misguided and foolish notion enshrined in health care legislation that a severely mentally ill person has the capacity to make life and health decisions that will benefit him has led to this. All these mass killings - V Tech, Giffords, Newton - just illustrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that these individuals are much better served when not forced to navigate a world they have no capacity to truly survive in, all in the name of “individual rights”. My sister-in-law is a paranoid schizophrenic and forty years of dealing with her illness has shown that she does best, hands down, when she is in a controlled environment with monitored medication and structured activities. We need to find a way to keep these individuals in a safe and productive environment and protect the larger society from their dangerous breakdowns.

The more usual story is that the young unstable man buys an arsenal through normal retail outlets, without any difficulties whatever, despite a documented history of mental illness. This time, however, the weapons belonged to the shooter’s mother and first victim, reportedly a gun enthusiast. And in the Oregon mall shooting a few days ago, the weapon was a stolen rifle.

I hope that all the readers of this blog have their weapons locked away and disabled with trigger locks when the weapons are not actually in their hands or strapped to their bodies.

In addition to fantasizing about being on the scene and bring down the shooter, you might be able to stop the next shooting before it starts by rendering your own firearms harmless.

There are some statements comparing the Connecticut school shooting to a recent stabbing spree at a school in China.

The 20 stabbed children are still alive (if the mutant had known what to do â€“ they wouldnâ€™t be, thank goodness he was ignorant) but this is being used as an argument for the safety aspects of citizens being denied guns;

Rudy Rummelâ€™s figure for murders of citizens by the Chinese Communist state 1947 to 1989 are 76,702,000
-that is some safety argument in favour of making the plebs defenceless in the face of the state, and making america more like China (not!)http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM

Reducing availability of guns does reduce the use of guns as a means in murder and suicide, but it does not reduce the murder and suicide rates, means other than shooting are used to achieve those ends of murder and suicide instead.

Unless someone has a particularly morbid phobia about the idea of death by shooting as compared to death by any other means, what is the benefit of reducing* guns as a means?

There is arguably a negative benefit, as those who use violent confrontation (rape robbery and sucker punching sadists) are emboldened, as they are less likely to encounter prey or passers by who can fight back.

Note that the Aurora Cinema shooter did not go to the nearest cinema to his home, nor did he go to the one with the biggest screen, of the 7 or 8 cinemas within 20 minutes of his home that were showing Batman that night, he went to the only one which banned guns â€“ naturally he didnâ€™t comply with the notices, but the honest viewers whom he preyed on did, and the fat blue line who were at the cinema in force, were about as much use as a chocolate fireguard.

Simillarly, if it is availability of guns which cause such events, why do they occur in schools (where guns are usually banned) rather than at firing ranges, where people with guns abound?

Also, what is the profile of those on the receiving end of homicide in places where defensive use of guns is allowed or encouraged, compared to those places where it is banned?

Are those â€śGun Deathâ€ť numbers going to consist more of ordinary, honest citizens, or are they going to be predatory individuals who got whacked by honest citizens in self defence?

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*I use the word â€średucedâ€ť rather than â€śremovedâ€ť as the only guns which can be confiscated are those which are known about, and by definition, only an honest (or foolish) person will leave a paper trail. The violent crimminals, those whose guns many would want to remove, will not leave a trail, and likely have very good contacts in the black market for getting more guns, whether stolen from cops and army, imported or clandestinely made.

To see how disgustingly simple the last option is and to dispel any illusion that a law will somehow â€śmake guns go awayâ€ť, search Amazon with the terms â€śexpedientâ€ť and â€śPaladinâ€ť, the late author received a five year prison term (served with the hard boys in high security) for the subject of that publication, then later was â€śdisappearedâ€ť for 3 months under British Terror laws, after some Asian youths were found with a copy of one of his books. All of those whoâ€™d bought e-books from his website received armed raids, and he was denied access for the remainder of his life to internet or computer. That is the extent to which his message pisses off the monopolist

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Started in October of 2002, Alphecca is an occasional blog of OPINIONS by a libertarian, gay gun-nut living in Vermont. Book reviews, politics, gun stuff, other stuff; it’s all here. Your opinions about my opinions are welcome in the comments and as I always say, thank’s for stopping by.